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Can CM Yogi Adityanath Wrest The Milkipur Seat From SP In Assembly Bypoll?
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Can Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath wrest Milkipur assembly seat from Samajwadi Party for BJP in by-poll scheduled on February 5 to avenge humiliating defeat of saffron brigade in Ayodhya Lok Sabha seat. Samajwadi Party shocked BJP during Lok Sabha polls when Party candidate...
Online Education Among Children Is Causing Serious Mental Health Concerns
By Dr Arun Mitra Online education to the school children is a new phenomenon which was started during the COVID period. Since the Novel Corona Virus was highly contagious and would spread fast in the crowded places, the schools were closed to avoid students mixing in groups. However to...
South Korean Film Squid Game 2 Is An Allegory Of Capitalism Versus Democracy
By Caitlyn Clark If the debut season of the Korean Netflix series Squid Game laid bare the ails of modern capitalism, its highly anticipated second season reflects the challenges to organizing against it. Initially released in 2021, Squid Game became an overnight global phenomenon. In the dystopian survival show,...
As Trump Shockwaves Shake The West, Can The Left Take Advantage?
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Donald Trump’s return to the White House is prompting a realignment towards the hard right across the Establishment. Far more than during his first term. Then many liberals assumed a Trump presidency could be weathered until US politics got back to normal. Those prepared to...
Expect RBI To Cut Interest Rates Next Month; Budget Must Focus On Job Creation: CII President
NEW DELHI: Industry body CII expects the RBI to cut the benchmark interest rates next month to support sagging growth, its President Sanjiv Puri said on Wednesday and stressed the need to boost job creation through targeted interventions for labour-intensive sectors in the upcoming Budget. In an interview with...
GDP Growth Likely To Be 6.3 Per Cent In FY25, Says SBI Report
NEW DELHI: The GDP growth is expected to be about 6.3 per cent in the current fiscal year, a tad lower than the government’s estimates of 6.4 per cent, owing to several factors such as weak demand, SBI research report said on Wednesday. According to the first advance estimates...
Budget Should Focus On Tax Simplification, Reduction In Personal I-T: EY
NEW DELHI: The Budget is expected to focus on boosting private capex, tax simplification and reduction in personal income tax, particularly for the lower-income groups, to stimulate demand, EY India said. The Union Budget for 2025-26 is scheduled to be presented in Parliament on February 1. EY India, in...
India Must Speed Up Hybrid Technology Adoption In Pulses, Oilseeds To Reduce Imports: P K Mishra
NEW DELHI: India needs to accelerate adoption of hybrid technology in pulses and oilseeds to address production deficits, while acknowledging the challenges faced by farmers in implementing these advanced farm practices, Principal Secretary to Prime Minister PK Mishra said on Wednesday. Mishra highlighted that despite showing promising results, hybrid...
Rupee Plunges 13 Paise To Settle At New Record Low Of 85.87 Against US Dollar
MUMBAI: The rupee extended its slide for the second straight session and declined 13 paise to hit a fresh record low of 85.87 (provisional) against the US dollar on Wednesday amid higher crude oil prices and stronger American currency. Lacklustre sentiment in domestic equity markets and sustained outflow of...
India Inc May See Modest Revenue, Earnings Growth Recovery In Q3FY25
MUMBAI: After a poor showing in the first two quarters of 2024-25, the corporate sector could report a modest recovery in revenue and earnings growth for the October-December quarter (Q3FY25). The growth rate might, however, still be in single digits and at best track the underlying inflation in the...
Indian Employers Plan To Outpace Global Peers In Future Tech Adoption: WEF
NEW DELHI: Employers in India are planning to outpace global adoption in certain future technologies as companies operating in the country are heavily investing in technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), energy technologies, robotics, and autonomous systems, said the World Economic Forum (WEF) in its latest “Future of Jobs” report...
Gold Imports In April-November Overstated By $11.7 Billion: Govt
NEW DELHI: India over-counted its gold imports for every single month of the current financial year up to November with cumulative over-reporting to the tune of $11.73 billion or 31% in the first eight months. This was revealed in a review triggered by a sharp, inexplicable spike in imports...
NBFC Fundraising Through ECB Route Hits 5-Year High
MUMBAI: Fundraising by non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) through the external commercial borrowings (ECB) route has hit a five-year high in 2024. This comes after a slowdown in banks’ lending to the sector following strictures from the Reserve Bank of India in November 2023. NBFCs raised a total of Rs...
London-Based BP Wins ONGC Contract To Boost Mumbai High Production
NEW DELHI: British multinational oil and gas company, BP, has been selected as the technical service provider for enhancement of state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp’s Mumbai High oil and gas field providing up to 60% increase in the production over baseline levels. The upstream major had in June...
2025 AI Boom May Not Exactly Be Celebration Time For Indians
By K Raveendran As we enter 2025, the accelerating proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to reshape the global landscape in ways akin to the transformational impact the internet had in the late 20th century. Within the first few days of the year, AI-driven technology stocks have seen...
Union Budget 2025-26 Faces Sharp Fall In Real GDP Growth To 4-Year Low
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The projection by National Statistics Office (NSO) of a sharp fall in India’s real GDP growth rate to a 4-year low to only 6.4 per cent in the current financial year 2024-25 compared to the growth rate of 8.2 per cent in 2023-24 is a...
Milkipur Assembly Bypoll In Uttar Pradesh Is A Prestige Issue For Samajwadi Party
By Sushil Kutty The Bahujan Samaj Party wouldn’t fight the Milkipur bypoll. Behan Mayawati is down with political paralysis and her nephew ‘Anand’, who is off and on her successor, isn’t up to the task. So Milkipur will go to a bypoll without the BSP—voting on February 5 and...
CPI(M) Area Conferences In Bengal Expose Dismal Organisational State
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: West Bengal unit of CPI(M)’s organisational muscle has been weakening since 2011 after Trinamool Congress replaced it as the ruling dispensation in the state through that year’s assembly elections. The party which had called Bangla Bandh often during its tenure against “step motherly attitude” of...
